Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge. John Owen[view]
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God’s elect, that they should believe. John Owen[view]
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it. John Owen[view]
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read or hear of to be gone to heaven, went there because they were so good and holy. Yet not one of them, not any one that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come there any other way but by forgiveness of sins. John Owen[view]
Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare. John Owen[view]
The Gospel will teach a man to feel sin and believe righteousness at the same time. Faith will carry heaven in one hand and hell in the other; showing the one deserved, the other one purchased. John Owen[view]
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. John Owen[view]
The nature and end of judgment or sentence must be corrective, not vindictive; for healing, not destruction. John Owen[view]
The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save His church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it. John Owen[view]
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ. John Owen[view]
Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him. John Owen[view]
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. John Owen[view]